Compensation of supervisors and assessors for 1868. County clerks. (820.) SEC. 10 [11]. The several supervisors and assessors of the townships, villages, and cities in this State, who have made any returns of births and deaths to the county clerk of their respective counties for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and have not received the amount of compensation as provided for in this act, shall be paid therefor at rates set forth in the preceding sections. And such county clerks as have made returns of the births, marriages, and deaths to the Secretary of State for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and who have not received compensation therefor, shall be paid for the same at the rates set forth in the preceding sections.1 CHAPTER XVII. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE STATE. Board constituted. Assistants. Assistants' salaries. An Act to provide for the further geological survey of the State. [Approved March 26, 1869. Laws of 1869, p. 109.] (821.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the State Board of Education shall constitute a Board of Geological Survey. They shall control and supervise the continuance and completion of the geological survey of the State; and for that purpose they may from time to time appoint such person or persons to assist in making said survey as may be deemed necessary. The length of time, and the location and locations where said persons shall be employed, shall be determined by said board. SEC. 2.3 (822.) SEC. 3. The salary of the persons employed in the survey shall be fixed by the board, and shall be payable only for services 1 As added by Act 125 of the Laws of 1869, p. 214, approved and took effect April 8, 1869. 2 As amended by Act 179 of the Laws of 1871, p. 298, approved and took effect April 17, 1871. 3 Repealed by Act 179 of the Laws of 1871, p. 298. actually rendered. Such board shall regulate all expenses incident to the survey, and may require such frequent reports as they may Reports. think useful.' survey. (823.) SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said board to make, or Character of cause to be made, a thorough geological and mineralogical survey of the State, embracing a determination of the succession and arrangement, thickness, and position of all strata and rocks, their mineral character and contents, and their economical uses; an investigation of soils and subsoils, and the determination of their character and agricultural adaptation; the investigation of all deposits of brines, coal, marl, clay, gypsum, lime, petroleum, and metals and metallic ores, building-stone, marble, grit-stone, materials for mortar and cement, mineral paint, and all other productions of the geological world within the limits of this State capable of being converted to the uses of man. 1 1 exhibition. (824.) SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said board to cause ample Specimens for materials to be collected for the illustration of every department of the geology and mineralogy of the State, and to label, arrange, and prepare the same for exhibition in suitable cases in the museums of the State University, Agricultural College, and State Normal School, and in each of the incorporated colleges of the State, and in a room in connection with the State Library.1 and occasional at close of work. (825.) SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of said board to furnish an Annual report annual report of the progress of the survey, and, as often as pos- statement. sible, a condensed statement of important and interesting facts for general circulation, and, as soon as the progress of the work will permit, to begin, and on the completion of the survey to finish, a Complete report complete memoir upon the geology of the State, embracing such an account of all its mineral and agricultural resources as is usual in works of that character, and a delineation of its geology upon the map of the State, and such other diagrams and illustrations as may be needed to set forth in a creditable, intelligible, and, as far as possible, popular manner, the nature, location, and extent of the geological and agricultural resources of the State: Provided, Such Proviso. report, when complete and printed, shall consist of not exceeding three octavo volumes: And provided further, That said volumes Further proviso. shall not contain, in any considerable extent, compilations and extracts of or from books heretofore published.' SEC. 7.2 1 See note to section 1. Vide note to section 2 of this act. All notes, collections, etc., prop (826.) SEC. 8. All notes, memoranda, compilations, collections, erty of the State. specimens, diagrams, and illustrations that may be made in the progress of such survey, by the person or persons engaged therein, shall be the property of the State, shall be under the control of the board, and, in case of the death or termination of connection with such survey of any such person or persons, shall be deposited in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, subject to the order of the board.1 Appropriation to meet expenses. (827.) SEC. 9. To carry into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of eight thousand dollars for each year, until the completion of said survey, is hereby appropriated, to be drawn from the Treasury as needed, on the warrants of the Governor, which appropriation shall be in full for all expenditures under this act, exclusive of the printing of the reports.1 SEC. 10. This act shall take immediate effect. 1 See note to section 1. TITLE VII. MILITARY AFFAIRS. CHAPTER XVIII. The Militia. CHAPTER XIX. Bounties to Volunteers. CHAPTER X VIII. THE MILITIA. An Act for the reorganization of the military forces of the State of Michigan, [Approved January 18, 1862. Laws of 1862, p. 20.] CHAPTER I. ORGANIZATION. (828.) SECTION. 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Persons subject to military duty. That all able-bodied white male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, and not exempted by the laws of the United States or of this State, shall be subject to military duty. The enrolled militia shall not be subject to active military duty when subject to except in case of war, rebellion, invasion, the prevention of inva- active duty. sion, the suppression of riots, tumults, and breaches of the peace, and to aid civil officers in the execution of the laws and the service of process; in which case they may be ordered out for actual service, by draft or otherwise, or so many of them as the necessity demands. In addition to the persons exempted by the laws of the Persons exempt United States, the following persons shall be exempt from military duty. duty: First. Ministers of the gospel; from military Assessor to return a list of per military duty. Powers of assessors. Second. Judges of the Supreme, circuit, district, and probate courts; Third. The members and officers of the Legislature; Fourth. All officers and guards of the State Prison; Fifth. All commissioned officers of the militia of this State, who have served as such, fully uniformed and equipped, according to law and regulation, for the term of six years; but no officer shall be so exempt, unless by his resignation after such term of service, duly accepted, or in some other lawful manner, he shall have been honorably discharged; Sixth. All State and county officers (except notaries public), and all teachers engaged in public institutions and public schools. (829.) SEC. 2. The officers acting as assessors of every township, sons subject to Ward, or city, shall, annually, on or before the first day of June return a list of the names of all persons who are liable to do military duty, residing in their township, ward or city, to the county clerk, who shall number the names, and file the lists in his office, and return the aggregate number of all the persons so enrolled in his county to the Adjutant General, on or before the first day of July of each and every year. The assessors shall have power to question, under oath, which they are hereby authorized to administer, any person deemed liable to do military duty, but who denies the same; and if any person refuses to be sworn, the assessor shall enroll his name in the same manner as though Fees of assessors he had admitted his liability. Upon the return of the assessor's list to the county clerk, properly certifying that he has enrolled all persons who are liable to do military duty residing in his township, city, or ward, he shall be paid two cents each for all persons so enrolled, out of the treasury of the county. If any Penalty for neg- assessor or county clerk shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform assessor or coun- the duty enjoined upon them by this act, the person or persons guilty of such refusal or neglect shall be liable to a penalty of not less than one hundred or more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debt before any circuit court, in the name of the people of the State of Michigan; and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county to prosecute the All moneys accruing from such prosecution shall, after deducting the legal costs and charges, be paid into the county treasury. In cases where such lists are not made out and filed, as herein provided, and when the same may be deemed absolutely necessary to the public safety, the Governor is authorized to cause such lists to be made by any other suitable person, to be by him lect of duty by ty clerk. Money so collected, where paid. When Governor may authorize list to be made out. same. |